September 17, 2008

Thanks to Mollie Z. Hemingway at Get Religion for alerting us to this moving story about Thomas S. Vander Woude, who died to save the life of his son: When Joseph, 20, who has Down syndrome, fell into a septic tank Monday in his back

September 17, 2008

Barack Obama, who apparently considers himself president-in-waiting, has been conducting negotiations with Iraq designed to DELAY the agreement for our troop withdrawal! So reports the New York Post: WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has

September 17, 2008

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson says that what we are witnessing is the collapse of Wall Street’s entire business model, as developed since the 1980’s: First, financial firms have moved beyond their traditional roles as advisers and intermediaries. Once, major investment banks such as Goldman

September 17, 2008

The Brewers have their best season in years, leading the wildcard race and headed for the playoffs with just 12 games remaining. So what do they do? Fire their manager. Yes, the team was slumping, frittering away their lead. But why fire Ned Yost, the

September 16, 2008

A “moderate evangelical” writes in USA TODAY that few of the conservative Christians all excited about Sarah Palin as Vice President of the United States would allow her to be pastor of their church. He argues that the support of evangelicals for Palin means that

September 16, 2008

It doesn’t sound like it. Then again, does anyone? It’s hard to see how higher taxes on the wealthy, as Obama is calling for, will produce jobs, stabilize the housing industry, or shore up the stock market. (Is it that higher taxes will give the

September 16, 2008

Thanks to Paul McCain for alerting us to this online resource from the Getty Museum: Cranach Magnified. It allows you to see tiny details from Cranach’s paintings, which sometimes amount to surprising extras: Following its acquisition in 2003, conservators and curators at the J. Paul

September 15, 2008

The Vatican has made a ruling that I fully agree with: The Tetragrammaton, YHWH, should not be uttered as “Yahweh”. “In recent years the practice has crept in of pronouncing the God of Israel’s proper name,” the letter noted, referring to the four-consonant Hebrew “Tetragrammaton,”

September 15, 2008

The current presidential slate includes a black man and a woman. It also, let us not forget, includes someone who is disabled. John McCain’s arms are crippled, due to his injuries when we was shot down and then tortured by the North Vietnamese. (He isn’t

September 15, 2008

Poll Shows Women Voters Shifting Support to McCain-Palin: A new Washington Post/ABC News survey finds McCain is now ahead of Obama by 12 points among white women, 53 to 41 percent. Last month Senator Obama held an eight point lead over McCain among white women


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